The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. Developed roads make the natural wonders of the National Forests accessible to tourists. Snow covered mountain surrounded by trees. Roads help nature lovers reach and see the scenic places in the forests. View from a tunnel. A lake amidst the mountains in a forest. Public highways serve the nation's needs and promote progress and prosperity.
General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.
A sand and gravel barge upturns in Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois. A diver climbs down a staircase into the lake to search for dead bodies. Men aboard a rescue vessel. A diver comes aboard the vessel. A boat underway at the lake as the search for dead bodies continues.
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. View from moving vehicle in the park. Many 1960s cars and recreational vehicles (RV) drive past on a road. Trees on either side of the road. The cars stop at the South Entrance station and then move one after the other. They drive past a lake. Trees in the foreground. A car drives across a small bridge. The cars driving past. A dense forest on either side. The lake in the foreground. A road alongside the lake. Sign for West Thumb area.The car moves on the road. A village area and information center and cars parked at a parking lot. People walk on a pathway.
Men with horse carts on Mount Hood loop road that circles the peak in Oregon National Park. View of Mount Hood. Car drives on a road through Crater Lake National forest. View of crater lake.
University of Illinois Gymnasts Team pose before camera and show off their gymnastics skills at a field in Champaign Illinois. Gymnasts tumble, twirl and somersault through the air. April 1938.
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